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Museum, Seattle; Vice-President, J. H. Bowles, Tacorna; Secretary and 

 Treasurer, Stanton Warburton. 



Cooperation is always productive of much good and it would seem 

 that there is a good field in the northwest for just such an organization 

 as this. We trust that those interested in joining the organization will 

 lose no time in communicating with Mr. Hall, and we hope that the club 

 may have a long and prosperous history. 



Complete Sets of 'The Auk.' — A series of 'The Auk' now includes 

 36 full volumes accompanied by two general indexes for the years 1876- 

 1900 and 1901-1910. Owing to the limited editions of the early volumes 

 the number of possible complete sets probably does not exceed 500, but 

 the total at present known is not much more than 150. Sales, destruction 

 of copies, and the death of early members have broken the continuity of 

 series and resulted in the transfer or loss of many volumes. As time 

 goes on some sets now in private hands will pass into the possession of 

 public libraries and the number of such sets now a little more than 60, 

 will increase. Since the appearance of a brief note on this subject in 

 'The Auk' for October, 1919, several members have reported the pos- 

 session of sets and a few series previously incomplete have been completed. 

 The data now available are published in the hope of stimulating further 

 efforts in this direction. 



In the following list arranged geographically by states, sets in public 

 libraries are mentioned first and are followed in alphabetical order by 

 those in private hands. Most of the sets are bound and nearly all include 

 the two general indexes. Seven sets (indicated by an asterisk) are prac- 

 tically complete but lack a single volume or part of a volume. In addition 

 to those here enumerated about 20 others are known which lack some of 

 the first six volumes but which may be completed later. It is interesting 

 to note that while these sets are distributed in 27 states, the Philippines, 

 Canada, and England, less than one-fifth are located west of the Mississippi 

 River. Nearly as many are credited to the District of Columbia while 

 the only ones reported from the Southern States are one each in Virginia, 

 South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. 



Such a list as this is necessarily incomplete and subject to frequent 

 correction as private sets change hands and gaps are filled in series now 

 incomplete. Members are requested to send to the Secretary any cor- 

 rections or additions which will increase the accuracy or completeness of 

 the list. 



California — 13 



California Academy of Sciences, Museum of History, Science and 



San Francisco Art, Los Angeles 



Leland Stanford, Jr., University, University of California, Berkeley 



Palo Alto Dawson, W. L., Santa Barbara 



